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This year, I decided to add a festive menu to my Thanksgiving tablescape. It looks really snazzy, but it's really simple to make. I made mine in Photoshop in about 10 minutes. The supplies you will need are:
First, you'll want to open a new project in Photoshop. Make a custom preset, with 5" width and 7" height. Anything you want to print should be at least 300 pixels/inch.
When your document is open, you're going to want to mark off the space for your washi tape so you know where to align your typing. Go to view, click New Guide, and set your first of three guides.
Select vertical orientation, and set your guide at 1 inch. Depending on the size of your washi tape, you'll want to set another guide to the left of the first, so you can visualize where it will go on the final printout. My washi tape was 5/8 inches, so I set mine at 3/8 of an inch.
Here, you can see what your document will look like with the washi tape guides on it. These will not print out, so you'll have to approximate where it goes once you've printed it out. Lastly, you need to add a center line guide for the area to the right of your washi tape so you can center your text appropriately, which for me turned out to be at the 4" mark.
Next, choose your fonts and colors and type up your menu. For the diamond accent shapes, I used the period from a free font called Rezland, and for the headline text I used a free font called Modeno. The body text is Sathu, which is included in Photoshop. Choose whatever color scheme best matches your table, and type in your menu.
Next, you'll want to save your document (but saving all along is important as well), and then save it as a Photoshop pdf as well. Print as many copies as you need directly from photoshop onto your 5"7 paper. The program will know to print on 5"7 paper because of the preset we made at the beginning.
Once you've printed out as many menus as you need, take your washi tape and wrap it all the way around the card, with your seam on the back. My cardstock had a grain to it, so I used that to make sure the washi tape was on straight. I used the first complete menu as a guide for aligning the rest of them.
And there you go, a quick and easy menu to add to your table. Happy Thanksgiving!
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This year, I decided to add a festive menu to my Thanksgiving tablescape. It looks really snazzy, but it's really simple to make. I made mine in Photoshop in about 10 minutes. The supplies you will need are:
First, you'll want to open a new project in Photoshop. Make a custom preset, with 5" width and 7" height. Anything you want to print should be at least 300 pixels/inch.
When your document is open, you're going to want to mark off the space for your washi tape so you know where to align your typing. Go to view, click New Guide, and set your first of three guides.
Select vertical orientation, and set your guide at 1 inch. Depending on the size of your washi tape, you'll want to set another guide to the left of the first, so you can visualize where it will go on the final printout. My washi tape was 5/8 inches, so I set mine at 3/8 of an inch.
Here, you can see what your document will look like with the washi tape guides on it. These will not print out, so you'll have to approximate where it goes once you've printed it out. Lastly, you need to add a center line guide for the area to the right of your washi tape so you can center your text appropriately, which for me turned out to be at the 4" mark.
Next, choose your fonts and colors and type up your menu. For the diamond accent shapes, I used the period from a free font called Rezland, and for the headline text I used a free font called Modeno. The body text is Sathu, which is included in Photoshop. Choose whatever color scheme best matches your table, and type in your menu.
Next, you'll want to save your document (but saving all along is important as well), and then save it as a Photoshop pdf as well. Print as many copies as you need directly from photoshop onto your 5"7 paper. The program will know to print on 5"7 paper because of the preset we made at the beginning.
Once you've printed out as many menus as you need, take your washi tape and wrap it all the way around the card, with your seam on the back. My cardstock had a grain to it, so I used that to make sure the washi tape was on straight. I used the first complete menu as a guide for aligning the rest of them.
And there you go, a quick and easy menu to add to your table. Happy Thanksgiving!
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This year, I decided to add a festive menu to my Thanksgiving tablescape. It looks really snazzy, but it's really simple to make. I made mine in Photoshop in about 10 minutes. The supplies you will need are:
First, you'll want to open a new project in Photoshop. Make a custom preset, with 5" width and 7" height. Anything you want to print should be at least 300 pixels/inch.
When your document is open, you're going to want to mark off the space for your washi tape so you know where to align your typing. Go to view, click New Guide, and set your first of three guides.
Select vertical orientation, and set your guide at 1 inch. Depending on the size of your washi tape, you'll want to set another guide to the left of the first, so you can visualize where it will go on the final printout. My washi tape was 5/8 inches, so I set mine at 3/8 of an inch.
Here, you can see what your document will look like with the washi tape guides on it. These will not print out, so you'll have to approximate where it goes once you've printed it out. Lastly, you need to add a center line guide for the area to the right of your washi tape so you can center your text appropriately, which for me turned out to be at the 4" mark.
Next, choose your fonts and colors and type up your menu. For the diamond accent shapes, I used the period from a free font called
Rezland, and for the headline text I used a free font called
Modeno. The body text is Sathu, which is included in Photoshop. Choose whatever color scheme best matches your table, and type in your menu.
Next, you'll want to save your document (but saving all along is important as well), and then save it as a Photoshop pdf as well. Print as many copies as you need directly from photoshop onto your 5"7 paper. The program will know to print on 5"7 paper because of the preset we made at the beginning.
Once you've printed out as many menus as you need, take your washi tape and wrap it all the way around the card, with your seam on the back. My cardstock had a grain to it, so I used that to make sure the washi tape was on straight. I used the first complete menu as a guide for aligning the rest of them.
And there you go, a quick and easy menu to add to your table. Happy Thanksgiving!
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